A new study, co-authored by researchers at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Forestry, offers a ‘scorecard’ for climate adaptation projects – a set of 16 criteria that can be used to evaluate climate adaptation projects and inform their design.
Scientists Issue New Climate Adaptation ‘Scorecard’
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